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Posted: January 21 2008 at 15:14 |
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Every one has a different opinion about this. So tell yours.
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Forgotten Son
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Posted: January 21 2008 at 15:21 |
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When one is content with themselves and their achievements. I'm trying (it's difficult) to throw off the idea that success has to be economic.
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Posted: January 21 2008 at 15:23 |
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 BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.
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Posted: January 21 2008 at 15:23 |
 Forgotten Son wrote:
When one is content with themselves and their achievements. I'm trying (it's difficult) to throw off the idea that success has to be economic. |
I second that.
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Blacksword
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Posted: January 21 2008 at 15:25 |
Ok, I didn't see BaldFreide's response..I THIRD that! 
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Posted: January 21 2008 at 15:39 |
I fourth that.
Success for a large segment of society is economical. For others is fame. For some is the sense that they "are something". But what if achieving that leaves you craving for more? When you make your life a one-goal dream, the moment you achive it it suddenly gets usless, meaningless...
I consider a successful person he/she who is happy being what he/she is. If a janitor lives happy and goes to sleep thinking he had a good day I'd choose him over the CEO who relies on pills, caffeinne and prozac to make it through the day. Now, if he/she feels content, then he;'s successful.
Money helps you achieve your own personal definition of success. But just making money is not success unless THAT"S YOUR DEFINITION of success.
And if that's the case, well, I just don't agree with you. But anyway, if you make it, you're successful.
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Posted: January 21 2008 at 16:19 |
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Someone that is consistently better than the average at what they do. Just remember, these people may not actually be content with what they have currently acheived, but it doesnt mean they arent succesful.
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Posted: January 21 2008 at 16:22 |
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So, can you become a successful office worker or teacher? Is the term necessary for people who have no interests in fields they can fail in, or is it just synonymous with "employed" in this case?
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Posted: January 21 2008 at 17:47 |
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when you rule the world from your vast floating palace that endlessly sails around the world while your every whim is catered for by a host of buxom maidens...
... or when you get free cable, either's good for me.
Edited by arcer - January 21 2008 at 17:48
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Posted: January 21 2008 at 18:25 |
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when you achieve the highest level in world of warcraft.lol
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KoS
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Posted: January 21 2008 at 20:07 |
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Someone with lots of money and things!!
Actually, someone who is just plain happy doing what they love.
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Posted: January 21 2008 at 20:36 |
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All I know is that we hate it when our friends become successful.
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Posted: January 21 2008 at 20:40 |
Forgotten Son wrote:
When one is content with themselves and their achievements. I'm trying (it's difficult) to throw off the idea that success has to be economic. |
Thread over. 
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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken
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Posted: January 21 2008 at 20:41 |
I guess from an individuals point of view it depends on what their personal goals are and whether they've achieved them - many would claim that they've never achieved that and would always strive to be better while others could look back as say they've done the best they can.
I would say "envy" would be extreme measure by which we would judge other peoples success  |
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What?
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Posted: January 23 2008 at 15:49 |
to one day be able to look down upon the first level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, from some sort of vantage point, however modest.... 
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Posted: January 23 2008 at 16:35 |
Forgotten Son wrote:
When one is content with themselves and their achievements. |
' Quoted for truth.
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Neil
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Posted: January 23 2008 at 17:03 |
A lot of the posts here seem to think of being successful as being either famous or financially well off. This is indeed a latter day definition of the phrase but the original definition of being successful is to succeed in what you do. I prefer that definition myself and would say that someone is successful if they achieve the goal that they set out accomplish. Therefore you can be a successful teacher, bin man, office clerk or whatever you choose just by doing that job well. 
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When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory.
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: January 23 2008 at 20:58 |
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I agree with most here in that you should live every day as it comes and be happy with what you have and what you will achieve. Everyone achieves good in their lives. That may not equate to success, necessarily, but if it keeps you alive and wanting more, then that's great news. Success isn't measurable anyhow.
For me, I would like to leave my mark somehow in the future and maybe I have done that already, but there's no harm in keeping that dream alive, because after I am gone, I will not know whether I did leave that mark or not.
One way I want to achieve that is to write a book of some kind that isn't necessarily successful, or particularly good, but one in which I hope people will pick up in the future and regard - hopefully in a good way - and may decide to research my life, or even just spread the word to their friends about my work, if they so wish.
Therefore I would have put something back into this world, thus achieving at least a brief moment of posthumous "fame".
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cuncuna
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Posted: January 23 2008 at 23:04 |
Economic succes is more often a tragedy than a blessing. My cousin is swimming on money, he's 37 and lives alone in his apartment. I visited him for about 2 weeks and I almost loose my mind. That is not a home, silent all day and filled with things. By the night, the altitude and the pale lights from the city makes you feel like an isolated human being that floats in a glass lighthouse that slowly leaves the world towards nothingness. Even him avoids to spent time there... ¡¡¡and it is his house!!!. It's more likely to find him visiting his parents. Succes for me is simply to feel happy when you go to sleep, to be able to kiss someone goodnight every night  , and to always have a laugh inside. Cookies are ok too... 
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